2026

Stephens, D., & Stilp, C.E. (2026). Speaking rate normalization with and without spatial segregation of simultaneous context sentences. JASA Express Letters, 6, 035203, 1-6. link

Stilp, C.E. & Winn, M.B. (2026). Independence of spectral contrast effect magnitudes across different frequency regions in speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 159(1), 581-591. link

2025

Stilp, C.E., Adames, I., & Shorey, A.E. (2025). Multiple timescales of context shape perceptual sensitivity to common pairings of musical pitch and timbre. PLoS One 20(7): e0328490. link

2024

King, C.J., Sharpe, C.M., Shorey, A.E., & Stilp, C.E. (2024). The effects of variability on context effects and psychometric function slopes in speaking rate normalization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(3), 2099-2113. link

Shorey, A.E., King, C.J., Whiteford, K.L., & Stilp, C.E. (2024). Musical training is not associated with spectral context effects in instrument sound categorization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86(3), 991-1007. link

2023

Stilp, C.E. & Chodroff, E. (2023). “Please say what this word is”: Linguistic experience and acoustic context interact in vowel categorization. JASA Express Letters, 3, 085203, 1-7. link

Shorey, A.E., King, C.J., Theodore, R.M., & Stilp, C.E. (2023). Talker adaptation or “talker” adaptation? Musical instrument variability impedes pitch perception. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 85, 2488-2501. link

Shorey, A.E. & Stilp, C.E. (2023). Short-term, not long-term, average spectra of preceding sentences bias consonant categorization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(4), 2426-2435. link

2022

Hatter, E.R., King, C.J., Shorey, A.E., & Stilp, C.E. (2022). Clearly, fame isn’t everything: Talker familiarity does not augment talker adaptation. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 86(3), 962-975. link

Stilp, C.E., Shorey, A.E., & King, C.J. (2022). Nonspeech sounds are not all equally good at being nonspeech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(3), 1842-1849. link

Mills, H.E., Shorey, A.E., Theodore, R.M., & Stilp, C.E. (2022). Context effects in perception of vowels differentiated by F1 are not influenced by variability in talkers’ mean F1 or F3. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(1), 55-66. link

2021

Stilp, C.E. (2021). Parameterizing spectral contrast effects in vowel categorization using noise contexts. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 180(5), 2806-2816. link

Stilp, C.E. & Assgari, A.A. (2021). Contributions of natural signal statistics to spectral context effects in consonant categorization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 2694-2708. link

2020

Stilp, C.E. (2020). Evaluating peripheral versus central contributions to spectral context effects in speech perception. Hearing Research, 392, 107983, 1-12. link

Stilp, C.E. & Theodore, R.M. (2020). Talker normalization is mediated by structured indexical information. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 2237-2243. link

Lanning, J.M. & Stilp, C.E. (2020). Natural music context biases musical instrument categorization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 2209-2214. link

Stilp, C.E. (2020). Acoustic context effects in speech perception. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 11(1), 1-18. link 

2019

Stilp, C.E. (2019). Auditory enhancement and spectral contrast effects in speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(2), 1503-1517. link

Stilp, C.E. & Assgari, A.A. (2019). Natural signal statistics shift speech sound categorization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(6), 2037-2052. link

Kluender, K.R., Stilp, C.E., & Llanos, F. (2019). Long-standing problems in speech perception dissolve within an information-theoretic perspective. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(4), 861-883. link

Frazier, J.M., Assgari, A.A., & Stilp, C.E. (2019). Musical instrument categorization is highly sensitive to spectral properties of earlier sounds. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(4), 1119-1126. link

Assgari, A.A., Theodore, R.M., & Stilp, C.E. (2019). Variability in talkers’ fundamental frequencies shapes context effects in speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(3), 1443-1454. link

2018

Stilp, C.E. & Assgari, A.A. (2018). Perceptual sensitivity to spectral properties in earlier sounds during speech categorization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(5), 1300-1310. link

Stilp, C.E., Kiefte, M., & Kluender, K.R. (2018). Discovering acoustic structure of novel sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(4), 2460-2473. link

2017

Stilp, C.E. (2017). Acoustic context alters vowel categorization in perception of noise-vocoded speech. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 18(3), 465-481. link

Stilp, C.E., & Assgari, A.A. (2017). Consonant categorization exhibits graded influence of surrounding spectral context. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(2), EL153-EL158. link

Llanos, F., Alexander, J.M., Stilp, C.E., & Kluender, K.R. (2017). Spectral entropy as an information-theoretic correlate of manner of articulation in American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(2), EL127-EL133. link

2016

Stilp, C.E., Donaldson, G., Oh, S., & Kong, Y.-Y. (2016). Influences of noise-interruption and information-bearing acoustic changes on understanding simulated electric-acoustic speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(5), 3971-3979. link

Stilp, C.E., Anderson, P.W., Assgari, A.A., Ellis, G.M., & Zahorik, P. (2016). Speech perception adjusts to reliable spectrotemporal properties in the listening environment. Hearing Research, 341, 168-178. link

Stilp, C.E., & Kluender, K.R. (2016). Stimulus statistics change sounds from near-indiscriminable to hyperdiscriminable. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161001. link

2015

Assgari, A.A., & Stilp, C.E. (2015). Talker information influences spectral contrast effects in speech categorization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(5), 3023-3032. link

Stilp, C.E., Anderson, P.W., & Winn, M.B. (2015). Predicting contrast effects following reliable spectral properties in speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(6), 3466-3476. link

Stilp, C.E., & Goupell, M.J. (2015). Spectral and temporal resolution of information-bearing acoustic changes for understanding vocoded sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(2), 844-855. link

2014

Stilp, C.E., & Anderson, P.W. (2014). Modest, reliable spectral peaks in preceding sounds influence vowel perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(5), EL383-EL389. link

Stilp, C.E. (2014). Information-bearing acoustic change outperforms duration in predicting intelligibility of full-spectrum and noise-vocoded sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135(3), 1518-1529. link

2013

Stilp, C.E., Goupell, M.J., & Kluender, K.R. (2013). Speech perception in simulated electric hearing exploits information-bearing acoustic change. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(2), EL136-EL141. link

2012

Stilp, C.E., & Kluender, K.R. (2012). Efficient coding and statistically optimal weighting of covariance among acoustic attributes in novel sounds. PLoS ONE 7(1): e30845. link

2011

Stilp, C.E., & Kluender, K.R. (2011). Non-isomorphism in efficient coding of complex sound properties. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(5), EL352-EL357. link

Stilp, C.E. (2011). The redundancy of phonemes in sentential context. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(5), EL323-EL328. link

2010

Stilp, C.E., Rogers, T.T., & Kluender, K.R. (2010). Rapid efficient coding of correlated complex acoustic properties. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 107(50), 21914-21919. link

Stilp, C.E., Kiefte, M., Alexander, J.M., & Kluender, K.R. (2010). Cochlea-scaled spectral entropy predicts rate-invariant intelligibility of temporally distorted sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128(4), link

Stilp, C.E., & Kluender, K.R. (2010). Cochlea-scaled spectral entropy, not consonants, vowels, or time, best predicts speech intelligibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 107(27), 12387-12392. link

Stilp, C.E., Alexander, J.M., Kiefte, M., & Kluender, K.R. (2010). Auditory color constancy: Calibration to reliable spectral properties across speech and nonspeech contexts and targets. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72(2), 470-480. link